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IPhone Addiction74 total reviews
Comment from JDRBAR
This is SOOOO right on about cell phone addiction. An addiction I am proud to say that I DO NOT have. People think I'm weird because I don't even own a cell phone, and my only house phone is a land line. But, your poem could apply to every other person I know. LOL
reply by the author on 06-Jul-2017
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This is SOOOO right on about cell phone addiction. An addiction I am proud to say that I DO NOT have. People think I'm weird because I don't even own a cell phone, and my only house phone is a land line. But, your poem could apply to every other person I know. LOL
Comment Written 03-Jul-2017
reply by the author on 06-Jul-2017
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Thank you for your fun review. Good for you - no cell phone. We keep trying to keep up with the technology as we have grandkids all over the world. Last night we did "facetime" with our grandson in Australia. It is so cool to see him and talk to him over 9000 miles away.
Thank you too for the special six star rating.
blessings
Janey
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Wow! My oldest son (going thru a divorce) is staying with me temporarily. I lost my youngest son, and have three other children. I have fourteen grandkids, one one the way, sixteen great grandkids, and two great-great grandkids. Nearly everyone is on facebook. Don't need a fancy cell phone LOL
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I just noticed that you live in Lancaster SC. We lived in Rock Hill for a year and now live near Asheville, NC. Small world.
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My bucket list includes a trip to Biltmore, one way or another.
Comment from Gert sherwood
Hello again Janet
Now I see how one can addicted to their iphone it's the direct opposite for me. I like my landline--
I wonder am I missing something not having a cell phone?
Gert
reply by the author on 01-Jul-2017
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Hello again Janet
Now I see how one can addicted to their iphone it's the direct opposite for me. I like my landline--
I wonder am I missing something not having a cell phone?
Gert
Comment Written 28-Jun-2017
reply by the author on 01-Jul-2017
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thank you so much Gert for your encouraging review. I greatly appreciate your comments. I doubt if your missing anything. It is addictive.
blessings
Jane
Comment from Joan E.
Thank you for sharing your story--mine is sort of the opposite: I retired nine years ago and kept my cellphone for a year, but did not use it once. Free at last, I said and continue to be one of the 11% who does not own a cellphone! Regardless, I very much enjoyed your rhymed and rhythmic quatrains. Smiles- Joan
reply by the author on 28-Jun-2017
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Thank you for sharing your story--mine is sort of the opposite: I retired nine years ago and kept my cellphone for a year, but did not use it once. Free at last, I said and continue to be one of the 11% who does not own a cellphone! Regardless, I very much enjoyed your rhymed and rhythmic quatrains. Smiles- Joan
Comment Written 26-Jun-2017
reply by the author on 28-Jun-2017
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Thank you Joan for your thoughtful review. I had a cellphone as part of my job for years so it was a natural for me. Now I have children and grandchildren all over the east coast, in Alaska and Australia. I like to keep up with them when possible but an learning to use it for me as well.
Hope you are having a good week.
Blessings
Janet
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Wow--relatives from Alaska to Australia-your cellphone gets a workout! More smiles- Joan
Comment from Kazzawin
This is such a fun poem with lots of laughs but just reading it showed me that we all take our technology for granted. Like you, I feel lost without my phone but when we are out and about socially I curse my husband's work phone as it impinges on our time together.
It's pretty obvious that technology is now a huge part of all our lives but your poem has brought home just how much we RELY on it!!
Sad really, but a superb subject on which to write an enjoyable ditty : )
reply by the author on 24-Jun-2017
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This is such a fun poem with lots of laughs but just reading it showed me that we all take our technology for granted. Like you, I feel lost without my phone but when we are out and about socially I curse my husband's work phone as it impinges on our time together.
It's pretty obvious that technology is now a huge part of all our lives but your poem has brought home just how much we RELY on it!!
Sad really, but a superb subject on which to write an enjoyable ditty : )
Comment Written 24-Jun-2017
reply by the author on 24-Jun-2017
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Thank you for your understanding and fun review. I greatly appreciate your comments.
Blessings
Janet
Comment from BeasPeas
This is a great poem, Janet. I think you've described today's culture perfectly. For me, I'm the opposite. I like my private time without ANY gadgets. I guess I'm a dinosaur or my personality is more private. I do have a cell phone, but it's the Tracfone I carry with me "just in case" there's an emergency. Your poem is funny, rhymes well, and tells a true story of our need to be in "touch." Marilyn
reply by the author on 24-Jun-2017
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This is a great poem, Janet. I think you've described today's culture perfectly. For me, I'm the opposite. I like my private time without ANY gadgets. I guess I'm a dinosaur or my personality is more private. I do have a cell phone, but it's the Tracfone I carry with me "just in case" there's an emergency. Your poem is funny, rhymes well, and tells a true story of our need to be in "touch." Marilyn
Comment Written 24-Jun-2017
reply by the author on 24-Jun-2017
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Thank you Marilyn for your understanding and fun review. I greatly appreciate your comments. You are wise. A tracfone is great - but I have children and grandchildren from Alaska to Australia and several states in the East. I love keeping up with their latest activities.
Blessings
Janet
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Fabulous that you have children all over that you can keep in touch with through our wonderful technology. That's what it's all about. Mine live close by, so I'm in good shape. :)
Comment from sunao
This is wonderful to think about. For some reason, we realize that we really need our phones when they are dead. I think that being addicted to phones can make you get out of touch with reality. Anyway, I hope that you are treasuring your phone but not letting it define and control you. Please keep up the good work and have a fantastic day!
reply by the author on 24-Jun-2017
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This is wonderful to think about. For some reason, we realize that we really need our phones when they are dead. I think that being addicted to phones can make you get out of touch with reality. Anyway, I hope that you are treasuring your phone but not letting it define and control you. Please keep up the good work and have a fantastic day!
Comment Written 24-Jun-2017
reply by the author on 24-Jun-2017
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Thank you for your understanding and fun review. I greatly appreciate your comments.
Blessings
Janet
Comment from Thal1959
Very, very charming, and with your usual flawless meter - until the very last line. But I am not going to debit you a star for that because I have done something like that myself... I ended an Iambic pentameter poem with a spondee because - well, since it was the last word in the poem, who cares if it breaks the beat?
And I can't help but wonder if you had "The Night Before Christmas: in mind when I read, "Then, off to the phone store I flew in a flash." Just wondering --- all in all, very well done.
reply by the author on 24-Jun-2017
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Very, very charming, and with your usual flawless meter - until the very last line. But I am not going to debit you a star for that because I have done something like that myself... I ended an Iambic pentameter poem with a spondee because - well, since it was the last word in the poem, who cares if it breaks the beat?
And I can't help but wonder if you had "The Night Before Christmas: in mind when I read, "Then, off to the phone store I flew in a flash." Just wondering --- all in all, very well done.
Comment Written 24-Jun-2017
reply by the author on 24-Jun-2017
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Thank you for your understanding and fun review. I greatly appreciate your comments and sparkling six stars.
I was thinking of Twas the night before Christmas when writing this and I even had a last line that ended with "I bid you Good Night" that met the meter but I didn't like that ending so I went with this one that is "off" but more to my liking.
Blessings
Janet
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You're welcome, Janet - it was my pleasure.
Comment from Sis Cat
Yes, we are addicted to our phones. We had a car crash the other day in my neighborhood caused by a man driving while talking. You write playfully and creatively about the phone's addictive nature:
It must have been hours - I started to cry.
My friends must all think that I went off to die.
No emails to check and no apps to peruse.
No messages, music, no Facebook, NO NEWS!
Maybe I should stop sleeping with my phone on my nightstand. ; )
Yes, without our phones, as your poem well-describes, we feel a part of us is missing. Price tag be damned, we have to have our phones.
Thank you for sharing your humorous, cautionary poem.
reply by the author on 24-Jun-2017
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Yes, we are addicted to our phones. We had a car crash the other day in my neighborhood caused by a man driving while talking. You write playfully and creatively about the phone's addictive nature:
It must have been hours - I started to cry.
My friends must all think that I went off to die.
No emails to check and no apps to peruse.
No messages, music, no Facebook, NO NEWS!
Maybe I should stop sleeping with my phone on my nightstand. ; )
Yes, without our phones, as your poem well-describes, we feel a part of us is missing. Price tag be damned, we have to have our phones.
Thank you for sharing your humorous, cautionary poem.
Comment Written 24-Jun-2017
reply by the author on 24-Jun-2017
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Thank you for your fun understanding and fun review. I greatly appreciate your comments.
Blessings
Janet
Comment from sunnilicious
A few weeks ago, the same thing happened to me. I don't believe the cost of the battery either. Verizon sells new phones only, because that's a rare problem and sent me over to a SmartPhone Doctor. Lol.
So I completely understand your poem. Your visual imagery is much more of a party phone. Still, nice narrative storytelling with visuals. Good rhymes too. Enjoyable read. Great work.
reply by the author on 24-Jun-2017
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A few weeks ago, the same thing happened to me. I don't believe the cost of the battery either. Verizon sells new phones only, because that's a rare problem and sent me over to a SmartPhone Doctor. Lol.
So I completely understand your poem. Your visual imagery is much more of a party phone. Still, nice narrative storytelling with visuals. Good rhymes too. Enjoyable read. Great work.
Comment Written 23-Jun-2017
reply by the author on 24-Jun-2017
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Thank you for your understanding and fun review. I greatly appreciate your comments.
Blessings
Janet
Comment from Hansel1
A cute piece on a true epidemic. Technology has become a problem large and wide. Excellent composition of a our relationship to this problem - Cheers!
reply by the author on 24-Jun-2017
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A cute piece on a true epidemic. Technology has become a problem large and wide. Excellent composition of a our relationship to this problem - Cheers!
Comment Written 23-Jun-2017
reply by the author on 24-Jun-2017
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Thank you for your understanding and fun review. I greatly appreciate your comments.
Blessings
Janet
